A brain transmuted into glass by the famous volcano should have been impossible. Some scientists say it still is.

Mount Vesuvius was so hot it turned a man’s brain into glass when it erupted, fascinating new research shows. A piece of dark ...

Scientists have discovered the reason behind the transformation of a young man's brain to glass following the eruption of ...

A HUNK of dark-coloured glass found inside the skull of an individual who died during the Mount Vesuvius eruption may actually be a fossilised brain, researchers have revealed. Glass rarely forms ...

Researchers who examined the remains of a man whose brain was purported to have turned into glass when he was killed nearly 2 ...

It was a surprising discovery when scientists examining the remains of a man who died in bed in the ancient city of ...

A rare organic glass was found inside a skull from Herculaneum’s 79 CE Vesuvius eruption. Researchers determined that a super ...

A man, thought to be the custodian of a religious group, was believed to be in his bed asleep, when a super-hot ash cloud hit ...

In a paper published Thursday in the journal Scientific Reports, archaeologists and volcanologists show that the shards of black glass found in the skull of a young man who died when Mount ...

A HUNK of dark-coloured glass found inside the skull of an individual who died during the Mount Vesuvius eruption may actually be a fossilised brain, researchers have revealed. Glass rarely forms ...

Scientists were stunned to find dark fragments resembling obsidian in the skull of a man who died in ancient city of Herculaneum during the 79 AD eruption of Mount Vesuvius. The eruption had somehow ...